Thomas Harvey Gill was a leader in American forestry, adventurer, writer of popular fiction and editor of an academic journal.

Forester

Gill served as a forester with the U.S. Forest Service from 1915 to 1925. From 1926 to 1960, he served as secretary and forester for the Charles Lathrop Pack

Charles Lathrop Pack

Charles Lathrop Pack , a third-generation timberman, was "one of the five wealthiest men in America prior to World War I". He owed his good start in life to the success of his father, George Willis Pack, and grandfather, George Pack in the forestry sector. Growing up on Lake Huron in Michigan's...

 Forestry Foundation. He played an important role in establishing the forestry division of the Food and Agriculture Organization

Food and Agriculture Organization

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is a specialised agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO acts as a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate agreements and...

 of the United Nations

United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...

 and founded the International Society of Tropical Foresters.

Scholar

In 1938, along with Harry Stack Sullivan

Harry Stack Sullivan

Harry Stack Sullivan was a U.S. psychiatrist whose work in psychoanalysis was based on direct and verifiable observation .-Life and works:Sullivan was a child of Irish immigrants and allegedly grew up in an...

 and Ernest E. Hadley he founded the interdisciplinary journal Psychiatry: Journal of the Biology and Pathology of Interpersonal Relations (now Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Processes).

Novelist

Tom Gill authored many popular and academic works. His fiction centered on stories of adventure involving cowboys, forest rangers, and frontier characters. His 12 books of fiction included Guardians of the Desert, Death Rides the Mesa, North to Danger, Firebrand, and No Place for Women.

Fox Movietone adapted Gill's story The Gay Bandit of the Border, releasing the film as The Gay Caballero in 1932.

External links

• Inventory of the Thomas Harvey Gill Papers, 1912 - 1972 in the Forest History Society
  Forest History Society
  The Forest History Society is an American non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of forest and conservation history. The society was established in 1946 and incorporated in 1955....
  
  Library and Archives, Durham, NC
• Overview for The Gay Caballero (1932)
• Forests in Fiction: Tom Gill Lived What He Wrote
• Tom Gill: 1891 to 1972